12Change log

Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)

Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)

Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests

Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests

CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISes- sion Objects

Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)

Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)

Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard

12.11 Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 1.11, Importing and exporting virtual machines, page 29)

Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.6, Host-only networking, page 94)

Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates

Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB

VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines

USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)

Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts

Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests

OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.9, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9), page 72)

Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

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